Copperbelt University Library

Welcome to the Copperbelt University Library

About

The Copperbelt University (CBU) Library system comprises the Main Library and Dag Hammarskjöld Library/ American Corner in Kitwe and the School of Medicine Library in Ndola. The Library focuses on meeting the learning, teaching, and research needs of the University by developing and sustaining a comprehensive, appropriate and up-to-date collection of information and knowledge resources. The Library and its branches have a collection of over 65,000 volumes, with an average growth of about 1,000 volumes per annum. Significantly, the collection includes a wide range of journals and electronic resources covering most of the taught subjects in the University. Members of the Copperbelt university community use any of the Branch Libraries.

The CBU Library has automated most of its operations and services. Automated services include the main Library Catalogue (Online Public Access Catalogue - OPAC) and provide access to full-text online publications and other electronic media.

Further, the Library has specialized collections like the Special Collections; Medical Collection; Dag Hammarskjöld Institute collection; and the Short Loan collection. Essentially, Special Collections is the research wing of the Library that stocks University publications, theses, Government documents and local publications (Zambiana collection); while the Short-Loan Collection stocks recommended publications on very high demand.

In addition to information resources, the Library has a Bindery and Printing Unit that provides binding and printing services. The Library is currently engaged in efforts aimed at improving its Information Technology (IT) base so that users can easily access the wide range of information sources.

The Librarian

Ms. Agnes M. Chitambo

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MESSAGE FROM LIBRARIAN

The Copperbelt University Library plays an important role in supporting information needs of the university community and beyond. To this effect, the Library is the core unit in sourcing, organizing, preserving and disseminating information to end users. The Library is driven by a quest to offer a wealth of informational and scholarly resources appropriate to the academic, research programs, and services of the University.

The Library's mission is to make its resources available and useful to the entire university community and the Zambian people and to sustain and preserve a comprehensive collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations.

The Copperbelt University Library staff is available to assist with reference and other information required services. For any specific or general ways we can assist with your learning, teaching, and research needs, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Departments

Bindery Unit

The Library Binding Services Unit is responsible for rehabilitating damaged library books and provides a wide range of other reprographic services such as binding of research projects and theses. The main styles of work are case, spiral and manila binding. Efforts are underway to equip the unit fully, and to extend the service to the general public.

Binding services are available between 09.00hrs and 17.00hrs during working weekdays.

Staff

Binder

Fernando Fulwe

Assistant Binder

Solomon Daka

Printer

Tryson Kaunga

Public Services

The Public Services Department controls all Library user activities and promotes optimum utilization of all Library information resources. The Library facilitates library membership registration and provides library orientation to all members to acquaint them with various Library Sections and services.

Reference service is one of the activities undertaken by the Department in conjunction with the Electronic Resources and Media Services Department. Further, the Department acts as a liaison between the Copperbelt University and other libraries for the purpose of resource sharing through Inter Library Lending (ILL).

Staff

Head, Public Services

Mr. Emmanuel M. Chitwamali

Snr. Library Assistant (Circulation Control)

Ms Chilambwe Ng'ambi

Snr. Library Assistant (Reference Services)

Mrs. Ndabile L. T. Katantha

Library Assistant (Reference Services)

Mrs. Patience Ngizi Hara

Library Assistant (Circulation Control)

Ms Rachel Phelile Nyirongo

Library Assistant (Short Loan Collection)

Mrs. Martha Pondo

Library Assistant (Short-Loan Collection)

Mrs. Royce Z. Ngala

Library Assistant (Short Loan Collection)

Ms Catherine Mabona

Special Collections

The Special Collections Department (SCD) is the major research wing of the Copperbelt University (CBU) Library. The department is one of the four (4) integrated functional departments that effectively contribute towards supporting the University's overall mission by meeting the institutional learning, teaching and research needs. The other departments are, Technical Services (TSD), Public Services (PSD), and the Electronic Resources (ERD). The Department has a collection of about 15 000 volumes.

Nature of Collections

Copperbelt University Collection

This is a collection of books and monographs written by CBU staff past and present, and publications in general produced by the Copperbelt University community; such as, periodicals, staff offprint's, seminar papers, unpublished papers, conference papers and students' publications. From the Central administration and schools, we shall have calendars, handbooks, research reports and other documents of historical value (excluding University Archives, see 3.2.6 below).

Government Documents Collection

This collection comprises official publications by the Government of the Republic of Zambia, starting from the Central Government to the smallest department or unit.

Theses and Dissertations Collection

Apparently, this collection is part of the university collection except that, in addition, the collection contains theses that are not produced and written by the University and its staff.

The collection essentially is divided into 2 parts, namely; undergraduate student's theses (final year under-graduate project reports) and postgraduate theses comprising Master's theses and Doctoral dissertations by postgraduate students of CBU and by CBU Staff (past and present), and those awarded to Zambians or non-Zambians whose topics discuss Zambia and are of interest to CBU.

Newspaper Collection

Newspapers are an important source of current and retrospective information on national or international issues, government policy, social, political and economic conditions of the day. The Department will endeavour to collect the major national dailies and weeklies.

International Publications Collection

These are publications from various international organizations in the form of monographs, annual reports, surveys, research reports, review, conferences, forecasts, etc.

Services

Usage and Accesibility

The Special Collections Department is a closed access area specifically created for research purposes. Access by Library users to the area and usage of materials therein is restricted to registered members of the University and the Library.

Library users identify and locate materials in the Department through the Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC).

In-house Use of Materials

Undergraduate students and those with no borrowing rights are allowed to consult the materials within the Special Collections.

Lending Services

Academic and Senior Staff members and Postgraduate Students are allowed to borrow 3 documents for 3 days in specified collections.

Services Rendered by SCD Staff

OPAC Search

The OPAC is used to identify and locate information resources available in the Special Collections is achieved.

Location of Documents in the Collections

Staff members would be able to locate and retrieve documents for users.

Issuing and Return of Documents

Staff would facilitate the issuing of documents for use within and outside the Library.

Opening Hours and Days

Monday - Friday

09:00 - 13:00 Hours ; 14:00 - 17:00 Hours

Saturdays

Closed

Sundays

Closed

Holidays

Closed

Staff

Head, Special Collections

Mr. Boyd Nkhoma

Library Assistant (Special Collections)

Harriet B. Silumbwe

Snr. Library Assistant (Special Collections)

Thomas Kaluba

Library Assistant (Special Collections)

Beatrice Chileshe

Special Resources & Media Services

The Library's Electronic Resources Department is a unique and robust resource conduit (bank) that supports academic research, learning and teaching functions of the University. The Department provides access to a large information resource base and knowledge significantly in electronic format. The Department facilitates access to electronic resources through acquisition; subscription; and institutional partnership and collaboration. Electronic journals and databases are accessed through access authentication services provided by the Directorate of information and Communications Technology (DICT). Therefore, e-resources can be accessed on any computing device connected to Internet services through the University Internet connectivity. Another valuable resource is the CBU Institutional Repository.

Services

Providing access to electronic resources

Conducting information literacy training on how to use Internet-based resources

Developing and providing access to the CBU Institutional Repository

Promoting collaboration with other institutions on information resource sharing

Ensuring that the Library ICT Services are managed efficiently

Staff

Head, Electronic Resources

Mr. Augustine Mwamba

Sub-Librarian II

Mr. Charles Banda

Assistant Librarian (American Corner Coordinator)

Ms Pamela Kayula Mutale

Senior Library Assistant

Mrs. Memory B. Yambayamba

Library Assistant

Mr. Raymond Sikanyika

Technical Services

The Library Technical Services department is charged with the responsibility to identify, select, acquire, and process appropriate reading materials and develop collections that support approved academic programmes for the Copperbelt University. In addition, the department provides professional guidance on the management of various collections housed by the Library Catalogue. In order to perform these functions, the department consists of the following sections: the Collection Development (Acquisitions), Cataloguing & Classification, and Serials Control Unit.

Technical Services Sections

Collection Development

Cataloguing & Classification

Serials Control

Cataloguing and Classification/ Collection Development Section

The main function of the unit is to acquire and create bibliographic records for information resources, and essentially provides link and user access to the Library online public access catalogue (OPAC). The online public access catalogue can be searched on campus and beyond through the link provided on the Library page of the Copperbelt University website.

Serials Control Section

The CBU Library Serials section is responsible for managing print journals that the Library subscribes to. All materials in the Serials Section are for reference only, however, library users may, on request, be permitted to use them outside the Library as prescribed in the Rules and Regulations.

Services

Ordering, receiving, and cataloguing of information resources

Cataloguing & Classification

Library system database management

Staff

Head, Technical Services

Mr. Godfrey Mbewe

Assistant Librarian

Mr. Alexious Muunga (Cataloguing & Serials Control)

Assistant Librarian

Ms Christine Mundea (Cataloguing Services)

Assistant Librarian

Mr. Dominic Mwansa

Snr. Assistant Assistant (Acquisitions Services)

Mr. Rodney Mwamba

Library Assistant (Support Services)

Mr. Patrick Mateyo

School of Medicine Library

The School of Medicine (SoM) Branch Library is located within the School of Medicine at the Ndola Central Hospital. The School Library was established in 2011 to serve the information needs of the staff and students of the School. Since its inception, the Medical Library has continued to be a valuable tool in the daily lives of the students, staff and other health personnel that access it for studying and research. The feedback received from the many users of the library has been impressive and indeed humbling considering the level of growth in the numbers of users registered over the recent past. The library provides a wide range of services which include:

Reference Services

Library staff provides day to day user guidance to students and other Researchers.

Library staff are involved in teaching library users on how to search for information. This is done at the beginning of every academic year. The process however continues throughout the academic year because not everyone is available for library orientation.

Assistant Librarian, BALIS

Ms Virginia M. Hamwela ( on study leave )

Assistant Librarian

Mr. Lawrence Nyirenda

Snr. Library Assistant

Mr. Herman Sendoi

Library Assistant

Ms Chola Mutale

Library Assistant

Mrs. Luyando M. Mseteka

Information Literacy Programme

Information Literacy Lectures On Research Methodology And Referencing

The Library conducts workshop sessions on research methodology and referencing (Citation) for students preparing research papers and dissertations.

Students who need to attend these classes should register with the tutorials coordinator in the Electronic Resources Department (Cybrary) indicating the day of participation.

Subject Strengths

Acoustics

Service Strengths

Subscribers to AIP's online journals have access to a robust suite of services and features for researchers including: RSS feeds, downloadable citations, the ability to email abstracts to colleagues, access to the SPIN abstracts database, full-text HTML rendering, faceted search, linked references, and support for blogging and other Web 2.0 capabilities.

BioOne provides access to critical, peer-reviewed research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

Overview

BioOne provides access to a full-text database of current scholarly research in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. The database contains access to over 180 high-impact research journals from 136 not-for-profit society publishers, with over 85,000 full-text articles and growing daily.

Service Strengths

BJR : Original Research Papers and reviews from leading centres internationally, covering all aspects of the radiological sciences. Readers benefit from our continuous publication model, meaning the latest in research is published as quickly as possible. Sign up for table of contents alerts to keep up to date with all our new articles.

BJR/case reports : Case reports covering radiology, radiotherapy and the related sciences. BJR/case reports is an international, open access, online only case reports journal. The first issue of this key educational resource will be published in early 2015.

DMFR : Original Research Papers and reviews from leading centres internationally, covering all aspects of oral radiology and head and neck imaging.

Subject Strengths

Service Strengths

Free detailed abstracts, table of contents and email alerts for all users

Access to full-text of current and archived articles for subscribers.

Efficient online search capabilities.

HTML and PDF articles for easy displaying, printing and downloading

Reference linking to Cross Ref and Medline.

Usage statistics available to institution and country administrators.

Continuing access to journals from the subscription period.

OAI PMH, Metalib and SFX compatibility.

Atom and RSS feeds.

New search options have been developed, including: Automatic matching of a journal title as a user types; Context-sensitive spelling corrections, suggests alternative spellings to words not matched in the initial search; Automatically saved searches with re-run and edit facilities

In the quick search box, search all content allows a search that is not just restricted to journal content, but includes the full CJO website.

Over 11,000 full-text, peer-reviewed journals and over 15,000 abstracted and indexed titles, including access to 8 major databases.

Subject Strengths

Good coverage of most branches of social sciences and humanities; Strong business coverage; Strong nursing, medicine and allied health coverage; Dedicated newspaper database, kept separate from peer-reviewed content

Service Strengths

Single resource and single interface

1-8 databases can be searched at the same time; many journals can be searched at once

Emerald Management, features 120 Business and Management journals, all of which are peer-reviewed and fully searchable full text journals. Zambia has access to Emerald Subject Collections and all other countries have access to EM120

Service Strengths

Perpetual (permanent) access to research - you can continue to access all content published during the years of subscription, even if you stop subscribing. You will also benefit from rented access to the journal archives for the duration of your subscription.

Access to high quality, international content - giving you access to the latest, global, peer-reviewed research in your field of interest.

Subject Strengths

Earth science

Service Strengths

HINARI Programme enables low- and middle- income countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature. Up to 15,000 journals (in 30 different languages), up to 47,000 e-books, and up to 100 other information resources are available to health institutions.

Subject Strengths

Biomedical and health science

Service Strengths

HINARI Programme enables low- and middle- income countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature. Up to 15,000 journals (in 30 different languages), up to 47,000 e-books and up to 100 other information resources are available to health institutions.

The series of lectures looks at the challenges facing information professionals and their parent organisations as they face a future in which increasingly libraries existence is questioned where the Internet is universally accessible and giant global entities such as Google and Microsoft have budgets and collections that dwarf those of the largest library.

Subject Strengths

Information science; Librarianship

Service Strengths

The information on building and managing digital libraries is extensive but widely scattered and this series of lectures provides a structured overview of all of the issues and concerns which practitioners, students and managers need to address. It considers what libraries will have to become if they are to continue to be the information hubs which support the underlying teaching and learning of the university or college.

Subject Strengths

Service Strengths

The IMF is viewed as one of the world's most authoritative sources for economic information, analysis and harmonized statistics.
IMF eLibrary provides comprehensive data and original analysis,
with coverage of almost every economy in the world and a special focus on developing and emerging economies.

Subject coverage

JSTOR is a growing digital library of more than 2,000 academic journals, 20,000 books, and 2 million primary source objects.
JSTOR gives access to full-text journal articles available as searchable, scanned page images from over 600 important scholarly journals in 42 disciplines.

Service Strengths

Mobile-optimized content - A number of NPG titles now offer fully mobile-optimized websites or articles - which your users can access via the wifi network at your institution.

Advance Online Publication (AOP) - The latest research papers published online up to two months ahead of print publication.

Supplementary information - Additional information not included in the printed version, meaning papers can have greater depth, online enhancements and are more useful to specialists who require detail, without distracting more general readers. Includes data sets, expanded methods and video animations.

Special web focuses - Seamless access to all additional content published in regular, topical web focuses.

Table of Contents e-alerts - Get the latest news and research immediately by signing-up to Table of Contents e-alerts, delivered direct to your inbox.

The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles, case reports, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice.

Led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in partnership with major publishers to enable developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science research.

Pediatric Neurology Briefs (PNB) is the leading monthly journal review focusing on child neurology. Established in 1987 by one of the founders of the specialty, J. Gordon Millichap MD FRCP, PNB is designed to expedite and facilitate the review of current scientific research and advances in pediatric neurology and related subjects. The editors provide detailed monthly summaries of published articles, followed by commentaries based on their experience and corroborated by appropriate supplementary citations.

Pediatric Neurology Briefs provides pediatric neurologists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, pediatricians, psychiatrists, psychologists, educators and other health professionals with a detailed reference guide to the diagnosis, etiology, pathology, treatment and prognosis of nervous diseases of infants, children and adolescents. Content is intended to be accessible to readers in any medical discipline. (Now Open Access)

Subject Coverage

Pediatric Neurology Briefs covers a comprehensive group of subject areas related to progress in child neurology. An edited selection of these topics includes: pediatrics, neurology, neuropsychology, neurophysiology and epilepsy, neurosurgery and other related disciplines.

SAGE Research Methods is an innovative online tool designed to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects across a wide range of subject areas including the social sciences and health sciences. It offers access to over 120,000 pages of SAGE's renowned book, journal and reference content and provides advanced search and discovery tools.

Journals and serials in a wide range of disciplines, including several journals that were the first scholarly publications in their respective fields.
The journals present original research in the social sciences, humanities, education, and biological and physical sciences.

Subject Strengths

Economics; Education; Humanities; Law; Life and Physical Sciences; Social Sciences

Service Strengths

Chicago Journals are published by the University of Chicago Press. Founded in 1891, the University of Chicago Press is the largest American university press

The Journals Division currently publishes journals and serials in a wide range of disciplines, including several journals that were the first scholarly publications in their respective fields

Chicago's online journals are included in the Current Scholarship Program, a partnership between JSTOR and leading university presses, and hosted on www.jstor.org.